Supplements and Health

  Most adult Americans take supplements of one sort or another. And while there is a lot of controversy swirling around the effectiveness of supplements, there is also the question…

More Evidence Sensitive People Are Better Than the Rest of Us

It’s absolutely clear that some people are just more sensitive. A lot of them find their way to Feldenkrais class – a safe place to acknowledge and use sensitivity, to…

Bones, Muscles, Strength, and Belly Dancing

Ruthy Alon, one of Dr. Feldenkrais’s first students, said this about strength training: “When you talk about strength, you think about muscles; I think about alignment of bones. When you…

Your Brain, Poetry & Who You Share a Birthday With

When was the last time someone read you poetry? Maybe you remember a fellow student stumbling over Shakespeare, or a stern teacher belting out “Charge of the Light Brigade.” That’s…

Are You Ready to Do What You Want? State Change and Flexible Minds

This article in the New Yorker gave me a day of hopeful feelings about the human race. OK, so a lot of the research it describes confirms that humans are…

Reasons to Move – Zumba Classes!

First in an Occasional Series Human beings gotta move. Despite creeping sedentariness, as long as we are alive, movement is involved. I’ve met a lot of wonderful people involved in all…

Dr. Andrew Weil & Feldenkrais

I often recommend Dr. Andrew Weil’s book Spontaneous Healing to people who find Feldenkrais because of disease, disorder, diagnosis, or pain. Because Weil is an MD, he carries a certain reassuring authority…

Video – What is the Feldenkrais Method?

Though I’ve had a website for several years, I’ve never put my toe into the blogging pool. However, the more years I study movement and health issues, the more I…